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Build For Tomorrow

Bicycles Were A Misogynist's Nightmare

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7573 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When the bicycle debuted in the 1800s, it was blamed for all sorts of problems--from turning people insane to devastating local economies to destroying women's morals. We explore why the bicycle scared so many people, and what happens when the opposite of our fears turn out to be true. Get in touch! Instagram: @heyfeifer Twitter: @heyfeifer Web: jasonfeifer.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.1

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0:36.1

Never hitting play on its potential.

0:40.3

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0:47.3

so your balance sounds sweeter week after week.

0:51.3

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0:55.0

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0:58.6

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1:04.0

This is Pessimists Archive.

1:06.0

I'm Jason Pfeiffer.

1:07.4

The year is 1894 and England is just teeming with lunatics, idiots, and persons of unsound mind.

1:14.8

And that's not me being insulting, by the way.

1:16.9

That year, the annual report of the commissioners in lunacy found that England and Wales

1:22.0

contained 92,067, quote, lunatics, idiots, and persons of unsound mind, end quote, which was the largest

1:30.8

number ever reported, a full 2,245 more lunatics, idiots, and persons of unsound mind than the

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